One of the best thing which I love about Android is that its ability to allows users customize everthing on your home screen and this can be done using the third party applications as well. Android has a dozen of application launcher and we know gone through many of them like ADW Launcher, SPB Shell 3D, Go Launcher Ex, Nova Launcher and Espier Launcher. Zeam Launcher is another app launcher for Android smartphones and here in this article we will go through the Zeam Launcher on my Samsung Galaxy S II. Not just Galaxy S II, this works for all the smart phones which are powered with Android open source operating system.

Zeam Launcher is an Android application which is intended to solve ton of difficulties with the default Android launcher and this outperforms very well. Zeam Launcher is very good at its performance. Scrolling between the several home screen was very smooth even on low memory phone as well. The ability to have control on how many shortcut icons you want to have on the home screen is what I like the most.

Zeam launcher comes with enormous improvements over the stock Android launcher. The application allows you to quick, customize menu and you can add many apps to the launcher. Moreover you can choose the widget size, choose the app tray grid sizes and lot more.

Zeam Launcher Features

Zeam Launcher comes with the following sets of features –

Customized grid sizes

Customized grid for portrait and landscape mode

Supports Resizing of the widgets

Sensor rotation

Various appearances settings

Control on the number of screens

Elastic scrolling between screens

Screen looping

Number of columns

Number of rows

Works on low clocked processor phones as well

When long tap on any blank space on your Android phone, you will get the option of Preferences and these preferences are of the Zeam. Tap on it.

Various preferences of General, Workspace, Application grid, Action bindings are available. The following are the settings available –

General Settings

Various general settings are available –

FullScreen : Allows to run your phone in full screen mode

Sensor Rotation: Allows the phone to auto rotate screen using the sensor based rotation. It’s quite essential when you move your phone from various positions.

Appearances : Here the appearances tab allows you to select the color of your choice for focused color and the pressed color.

WorkSpace

WorkSpace is the option where in you have various options of modifications.

There are various settings of number of screen, default screen and indicator types are seen with option of selecting Elastic scrolling, screen looping. There is the option of content grid alignment with columns and rows, auto fit items and whole new way to manage wallpapers with scroll in between.

Application Grid

This will provide you access to the settings wherein you have the behavior choice from animated, transparency of the background, option to set number of columns in portrait, number of rows in portrait, number of columns in landscape and number of rows in landscape. So this is complete control over how many applications that you want to show when the phone is in portrait or landscape mode.

Action Bindings

Action Bindings the widget tool where in you can set what action should be performed when you press the keys combinations. Then you swipe up, swipe down, home button and double tap are the controls.

Dock

Various dock settings are available as well from scroll reset, dock background color, item alignment and spacing between items.

Reset to Default : When you have messed up with settings which you aren’t aware, hit reset to default.

Zeam Launcher App Download

Zeam Launcher Android application can be easily downloaded from Android Apps Labs for free. To download it directly on to your mobile phone, you need to visit the Android Apps Lab page listing of Zeam Application and then click on Install button to proceed with the installation.

Alternatively one can easily down this using the QR Code mentioned below –

Verdict

So Zeam with hits minimalistic design and faster launcher on the Market, makes it ideal app launcher for the older phones which need lightweight and simple. If you are looking for speed navigation and launching of applications then Zeam Launcher is the one you should go with. Zeam also keeps your Android phone crisp and clear with both functionalities and apperances.

I’m still a fan of the Apex Launcher, but started using the Google Experience Launcher with built in Google Now and love it. I wish Apex or Nova would copy the Google Experience Launcher with Google Now.

tried it ages ago and installed it again after reading this article and seeing the ratings on the market or…play store or w/e it is now
still prefer sense, go launcher and qq launcher to it.
could be down to my model of phone,
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